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TELEPHONE SERVICE  |  GENERAL POST OFFICE TELEPHONES DEPARTMENT

PLYMPTON TELEPHONE EXCHANGE

Updated:  01 October 2011 

When the General Post Office took over the National Telephone Company in 1912, Plympton's manual telephone exchange was located in Fore Street, Ridgeway.  Naturally it was Plympton Number 1.

It was transferred from manual to automatic operation at 2pm on Saturday July 6th 1935, for which a new exchange had been built in Moorland Road, Plympton.

At that time Plympton had about 250 subscribers.  The exchange had equipment for 400 lines and room to extend up to a maximum of 800.

Plympton lost its identity as an exchange name in 1965.

 

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©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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